Ellie Hannon (b. Sydney 1988) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Newcastle NSW that works across exhibitions, public art and community-engaged projects. These process-led actions fuel Hannon’s visual account presenting personal and political issues in relation to place. Informed through her involvement with community art projects, and environmental and social justice communities, Ellie makes art as a means to connect with a sense of place that prioritises relationship building and reparation, both internal and external, self and environment, the simple and complex.

Ellie’s work is easily approachable and welcoming to intentionally connect to many people through colour and familiar symbols and forms. Through drawing, painting, textiles and installation, her works uncover new methods of relational inquiry, presenting collective stories of human and non-human ecologies that propose themes of hopefulness, autonomy, trust, equity, respect, interdependence, and the contrasting realities that often sit alongside these impressions.